The Science of Thinking and Reasoning Better with Woo-Kyoung Ahn • 257
Mind Love™ • Consciousness, Spirituality, and Science for Awakening
Melissa Monte | Conscious Coach
4.9 • 906 Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
We will learn:
- Why we fail to see things as they are.
- Why others don’t always get what’s obvious to us.
- The 8 most common biases and fallacies that keep our minds closed.
When we have a strong opinion, we often look down on the people who don’t reach the same conclusion, whether they have the same facts as we do or not.
The biggest problem I see with us being stuck in our beliefs and becoming more and more intolerant of those who are different is, obviously, division, but more specifically, we’re losing sight of how beautiful a spectrum is.
And for me, learning what traps I might fall into when trying to find the truth, gives me compassion for others. And if we start to see our own blind spots, we might stop being so eager to point the finger.
So today, we’re learning how to think better so we can reason better and ultimately live better.
Our guest is Woo-Kyoung Ahn. She is the John Hay Whitney Professor of Psychology at Yale University. Her research on thinking biases has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, and she is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Mind Love, episode 257. |
| 0:03.0 | Today's episode is all about the science of thinking and reasoning better. |
| 0:08.0 | Smart people can rationalize better. |
| 0:10.0 | They can come up with all sorts of alternative explanations. |
| 0:13.0 | This is one study that I actually did not talk about in the book because I didn't cover the moral judgments, |
| 0:20.0 | but they have, there's a study showing that creative people actually cheat more because they can come up with all sorts of explanations to rationalize their cheating behavior. |
| 0:32.0 | So a student might cheat in an exam and they might say, |
| 0:36.8 | oh, the exam was not fair or the professor didn't really teach well. so this is not really a cheating. |
| 0:46.2 | So they can come up with all those explanations so they could be they could be |
| 0:51.3 | committing more balances as a result. |
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| 1:03.9 | It's time to give your mind a little love |
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| 1:37.8 | I think most of us can agree that we have a thinking problem in our country. |
| 1:42.4 | Well, probably in the entire world. We have a thinking problem in our country. |
| 1:42.5 | Well, probably in the entire world. |
| 1:45.0 | Meaning that most people just don't know how. |
| 1:47.8 | They don't think critically. |
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